Pamphlet



(No Model.)

J. W. WELLS.

Pamphlet. No. 241,575. Patented May 17,1881.

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JAMES \V. WELLS,'OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

PAMPHLET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 241,575, dated May 17, 1881. Application filed October 11,188 0. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JAMES W. WELLS, a citizen of the United States, residing in St. Louis, in the county of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pamphlets, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to produce a cheap pamphlet and cover for advertising, circulars, and other similar purposes for which it may be adapted; and it consists of a cover of I suitable material having an opening cutout from the center, or thereabout, so as to leave two reversing and holding strips when folded, in combination with a folded strip of paper forming double pages, and having the outer ends attached to the cover, the arrangement being such that the cover may be opened from either side, so that both sides of the folded pages maybe used, and the cover will be complete when used either way, as will be more clearly hereinafter shown by reference to the drawings, in which- Figure l is a face View of the cover opened out; Fig. 2, a modification of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents an end view of the pamphlet complete, showing one side of the folded strip. Fig. 4 is an end view, showing a modification, having the cover as shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 5

is an end view, showing the face of the folded strip of paper the reverse of that shown in Fig. 3. Fig. (i represents an end view of a modification, and Fig. 7 a face view of the same.

A represents one side of the cover, B B the reversing and holding strips, and O the opposite side of the cover. The cover is folded at the points a a b b, one side being folded against one face of the strips B B, and the other side of the cover against the opposite side of said strips. The ends of the folded strip of paper E are fastened one end to each half of the cover by paste or other well-known means.

It will be seen that when the side or face G of the folded strip or paper E is used, the edges J Kof the cover will be together, or nearly so, (see Fig. 3,) so that the edges L M may open out, and that when the face H of the folded strip is used the opposite edges L M will come together and the edges J K of the cover will open out. The strips or parts B B hold the sides of the cover together while being used either way.

In the modification shown in Figs. 2 and 4 the flap D may be turned over the side J of the cover, as shown in Fig. 4, so as to hold it more completely when required; and in the modification shown in Figs. 6 and 7 the strips B B are fastened,'one at fon the side A of the cover, and at g to the side 0, and the other is fastened to A at h, and to G at i. By this arrangement either of the two side edges of the cover are held together While the two opposite edges are opened out, so that the pain phlet is readily reversible.

I claim as my invention- A pamphlet-cover composed of the sides A O and holding-strips B B, in combination with a folded strip, E, attached thereto, so as to form a series of double leaves, substantially as described.

JAMES W. WELLS. Witnesses:

JAMES SANGs'r E, AMos W. SANGSTER. 

